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<h1 class="topictitle1">About Live Mount</h1>
<div><p>The <span>OceanProtect</span> supports live mount, in which a backup copy is mounted to the host that uses data so that users can immediately access the backup copy data.</p>
<div class="section"><h4 class="sectiontitle">Application Scenarios</h4><ul><li>Development and test data verification<p>Quickly access file system data through backup copies, run test scripts, and verify applications in the environment.</p>
</li><li>Minute-level data restoration<p>If the production volume is abnormal, you can mount the backup copy to the production host to reduce the service interruption time.</p>
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<div class="section"><h4 class="sectiontitle">Live Mount Service Process</h4><p><a href="#EN-US_TOPIC_0000002164804980__fig813012537366">Figure 1</a> shows the live mount service process. The following part assumes that the client is deployed on the <span>OceanProtect</span>.</p>
<div class="fignone" id="EN-US_TOPIC_0000002164804980__fig813012537366"><a name="EN-US_TOPIC_0000002164804980__fig813012537366"></a><a name="fig813012537366"></a><span class="figcap"><b>Figure 1 </b>Live mount service process</span><br><span><img class="eddx" src="en-us_image_0000002164645340.png"></span></div>
<ol><li>A live mount job is automatically scheduled or manually triggered on the <span>OceanProtect</span> WebUI, and then sent to the data protection engine.</li><li>The data protection engine creates a clone file system based on the restoration target copy.</li><li>The client creates a share for the production host and grants access control permissions so that the clone file system can be mounted.</li><li>Users manually mount the clone file system to the production host OS and access files in real time using the NFS or CIFS protocol.</li></ol>
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